On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Ed Greshko
<Ed.Greshko@greshko.com> wrote:
On 06/23/2012 04:01 PM, JD wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@greshko.com
> <mailto:Ed.Greshko@greshko.com>> wrote:
>
> On 06/23/2012 02:40 PM, JD wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there are plans to provide HFS write support?
> > In which release?
> >
> >
>
> Write support to HFS+ file systems is supported now. The only caveat is that you
> must disabling journaling on the file system.
>
>
> I suppose that hfsplus is hfs with journaling?
That is just one of the differences. There are others. Two others are, HFS+
supports longer file names as well as file names in Unicode.
>
> I see
> /sbin/fsck.hfsplus
> /sbin/mkfs.hfsplus
>
> If the answer to my question is positive,
> then why provide the above 2 commands?
????
fsck.hfsplus — HFS file system consistency check
mkfs.hfsplus — construct a new HFS Plus file system
commands have totally different purposes.
I was trying to find out if linux provided different versions
of these tools for the journaled and non journaled HFS.